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Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that time forgot

Posted by rmgr
Tags: shareware, retro, dos, ascii, history, video games, 1980s, 1990s, author.samuel axon, source.ars technica
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/08/remembering-the-best-shareware-era-dos-games-that-time-forgot/

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Authors
Samuel Axon
Published
Aug 21 2019
Word count
922 words

2 comments

  1. ChuckS
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    Sleuth (1983) Capture the Flag (1993) Landing Party (1989) EGA Trek (1988) Scorched Earth (1991) A two-page list of some free games from ~30 years ago. You're really not missing anything if you...

    Sleuth (1983)
    Capture the Flag (1993)
    Landing Party (1989)
    EGA Trek (1988)
    Scorched Earth (1991)

    A two-page list of some free games from ~30 years ago. You're really not missing anything if you don't look at the article.

    4 votes
  2. balooga
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    I never played any of these games but I enjoyed the read and the captioned screenshots. Somebody in the Ars comments linked to where you can play all of these in-browser thanks to the invaluable...

    I never played any of these games but I enjoyed the read and the captioned screenshots. Somebody in the Ars comments linked to where you can play all of these in-browser thanks to the invaluable Internet Archive Software Collection.

    I got into shareware computer games just a couple years after these were published — my childhood platform of circumstance was the classic Mac. Now there's a niche that's all but forgotten today! I'd love to see a similar write-up covering some of those titles. StuntCopter, Scarab of RA, Hot Air Balloon, Ray Dunakin's World Builder games, and most of the Ambrosia catalog were among my favorites.

    2 votes